For example, I personally prefer a medieval plague mask...
Monday, February 17, 2020
Some common sense required
I know it's not unusual for people to wear masks when they are out and about, particularly when there are well-publicized stories of airborne diseases, but you might want to consider something a little more...clinical.
For example, I personally prefer a medieval plague mask...
For example, I personally prefer a medieval plague mask...
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Now I want one of those masks.
Amazon has them from $25, I've seen leather ones from a coupla hundred dollars.
I always wondered how they could breathe in those masks. They stuffed the beak with various herbs that were supposed to ward off the "miasma" that caused the disease.
Stylish, and practical.
What's not to like.
The hat's a nice touch.
It seems that the mask, hat, plus "waxed robes" was something of a uniform for the plague doctors, but wasn't invented until the 17th or 18th Century.
The cane is another nice touch. Perhaps the modern variation should be a sword cane?
ward off the "miasma" that caused the disease.
Miasma (bad air - the stench of rot and death itself) was thought to cause pandemic disease all the way up to the middle of the 19th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Snow
Damn linky thing fail.
John Snow
By the way, the wearing of "surgical" type masks so commonly seen in Asia (and by many Asian immigrants here in CA) does not, in any way, prevent catching an airborne disease. It only prevents the wearer from spreading the disease (or at least minimizes it).
My grandfather's mother and 2 stepmothers all died after childbirth in mid-late 1800s and probably had the 'best' doctors of the time. I'll bet none of them thought clean hands were important.
Then the idea of killing germs was really only demonstrated on a broad scale in WW1, nothing like war to clarify people's minds.
So much for 'scientific consensus'.
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